What I like:

• Prices. Most of the things, clothes, and food are really cheap. But branded products are expensive.
• Fresh juice of orange, pineapple, apple, pomegranate, carrot, etc. – cheap and easily available throughout the year.
• Bikes. It’s indeed very popular in India.
• Fog everywhere which gets thicker by the end of the day.
• Warmth. Well I don’t know how is the weather in South India and how hot is there in Summer, but late Fall is very nice. On the other hand, Winter season is quite cold.
• Indian food. I haven’t tried ALL kinds of food but what I’ve tried was good. The food is very spicy and delicious.
• Talking about Punjab, music and people. I like bhangra much better than songs from old Hindi movies. And most of people are just very good-looking.
• The Sun in India looks bigger.
• Phone call service can be easily found at any place.
• Cosmetics… cheap and effective.
• It is very colorful, full of sounds and full of life – in any form, no matter how imperfect.
• Time moves differently there, in a different rhythm.
• It seems simple to travel relatively far within India.

 

And something I don’t like:

• No hot water in the tap, or there’re heaters with insufficient capacity. Even those heaters are not in every home.
• No bathtubs. For washing are used buckets.
• Huge creepy insects.
• Annoying sales people. Small example: in one accessories shop in Delhi a salesguy was watching hair accessories together with me as if he was my friend who came along shopping and was trying to help me choose, that was weird.
• Almost no supermarkets or very few. In the suburbs of Delhi there’re huge malls however.
• No good chocolate. A real disaster for a chocoholic. I didn’t find out if it’s produced in India but mostly import chocolate is sold at high rates.
• Most of people don’t speak English – for a foreigner that’s sure inconvenience.
• Rikshaws – don’t seem safe. Especially cycle rikshaws are very unstable, but autorikshaws are good only on even roads.
• Cows everywhere and they can eat garbage, plastic bags etc., and can be easily hurt by a vehicle.
• Corruption. However luckily not as a rule.
• Cakes, veg. burgers, sandwiches, etc. Yucky. I don’t know if it’s made for tourists who dislike Indian food but it’s totally unedible. Vegetarian burger…. It’s same thing as black snow.
• Racism. Just a tought about one aspect of this – after seeing on TV there ads of fairness creams which promise to whiten the complexion cause as per those ads dark complexion causes lots of troubles in life, I really wonder who allowed it to be broadcasted and why nobody protests.